Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:59 am
Had a few days to think about this one as its been a long time now since playing fulltime.
i started work at 16 as a trainee cnc programmer for an electronics company after 4 years of this i'd had enough of the monotony and jacked it to waste my life away.
i used to think that working for someone else was an absolute joke ,and had other subversive views aswell.after a few years playing there was a gaping hole in my c.v . now and again i did try to "slot" back into society but was thwarted many times by the lack of recent job refs.
eventually i just gave up trying,although the job centre kept sending me for interviews i'd just act apathetic as the jobs were not all that brilliant,and i could make a weeks shit wage in a day (even in the middle of winter i had one sweet day a week every sunday)
i used to wonder all the time ,what would i be doing in years to come?
and i knew that i couldn't do it forever, but i was stuck in a rut and couldn't be arsed with anything else .
the easy money spoils you ,you have a lesser sense of it's worth.
then one day i got told mr x a local arcade manager was looking for me, i hadn't a clue what he wanted and as i hadn't pulled any major skanks lately i went to see him.
he told me he was buying a place out west and offered me a job outta the blue saying"it's better the devil you know"
i took a few days to decide that it was my ticket out of the game.
i did however find it hard for quite a while ,initially was doing loads of hours . i would often get grumpy when i saw people sacking off gatw boards on ij1 and cluedos lol. i was also caught many times punting when i shouldn't have been ,old habits die hard
there is definitely difficulty in adjusting to a totally different lifestyle ,it's true. when some of you pro's give up slotting you'll see,but it aint the end of the world trayhop you'll be o.k man
i started work at 16 as a trainee cnc programmer for an electronics company after 4 years of this i'd had enough of the monotony and jacked it to waste my life away.
i used to think that working for someone else was an absolute joke ,and had other subversive views aswell.after a few years playing there was a gaping hole in my c.v . now and again i did try to "slot" back into society but was thwarted many times by the lack of recent job refs.
eventually i just gave up trying,although the job centre kept sending me for interviews i'd just act apathetic as the jobs were not all that brilliant,and i could make a weeks shit wage in a day (even in the middle of winter i had one sweet day a week every sunday)
i used to wonder all the time ,what would i be doing in years to come?
and i knew that i couldn't do it forever, but i was stuck in a rut and couldn't be arsed with anything else .
the easy money spoils you ,you have a lesser sense of it's worth.
then one day i got told mr x a local arcade manager was looking for me, i hadn't a clue what he wanted and as i hadn't pulled any major skanks lately i went to see him.
he told me he was buying a place out west and offered me a job outta the blue saying"it's better the devil you know"
i took a few days to decide that it was my ticket out of the game.
i did however find it hard for quite a while ,initially was doing loads of hours . i would often get grumpy when i saw people sacking off gatw boards on ij1 and cluedos lol. i was also caught many times punting when i shouldn't have been ,old habits die hard
there is definitely difficulty in adjusting to a totally different lifestyle ,it's true. when some of you pro's give up slotting you'll see,but it aint the end of the world trayhop you'll be o.k man